When you are French, you do not leave France. When you are a girl, you stay home. But, from early childhood, Cecile Dargnies plots her escape, beyond French borders and beyond French prejudices. First, she goes to America. In 1970, times are changing and the youth movement is in full swing. She has no money, no support, only a daring mix of voluntarism and fatalism. More than once, she will ...

From earliest childhood memory until I leave home, I take the reader on a journey through the loneliness, isolation and blessings of functioning in a mainstream world with a form of autism which did not gain classification until the late 1980's. The overall tone of my novel is positive.

Virporta Island is suddenly flooded with thousands of new residents - boys and girls who were born on the island have returned with their parents for a mysterious test. The test coincides with Maxwell Jones and his best friend Billy Barker discovering the island is the doorway to another world. But as they set out to discover the fate of the Last Heroes on the planet Vir, something is waiting ..

Rugly Puffs is an active bear, both indoors and out. His adventures have taken their toll though, leaving his fur dirty and smelly. Even Rugly's owner Ziggy has noticed the pong and banished him from the bed. Parrot says the smell is stuffing fungus and that this will explode through Rugly's fur at any moment if left untreated. Before Rugly can figure out what to do, burglars pay a visit to the ..

England 1866, London and indeed humanity is under threat from a lunar aggressor. An innocent exploration of the moon has enraged its prevously unknown inhabitants and sparked an interplanetary conflict. In these uncertain times, Captain Sydeian, a disgraced army veteran/inventor with a shadowy past forms an unlikely alliance with William Percival, a young wayward son of a noble but now ...

Miss Brown takes her class on an educational trip to the seaside. A diverse, argumentative group of children sets out to examine cliff-top habitat, an examination which comes too close to comfort for Miss Brown

Ruby Randall is a freak. The doctors know it, the school bullies know it, and Ruby knows it. But when Ruby gets caught up on the secret school run for children of abominable beasts and spirits, she finds herself in the odd position of being 'normal'. Desperate to find a way home, Ruby is assisted by the roguish Luca Ardesia of the Benandanti Werewolves, a shy vampire called Nez, and Ula, a crabby

Martha is struggling to restore some stability in her life, which has been in turmoil since her husband walked out on the family to join his pregnant girlfriend. She takes in a lodger, an asylum seeker, who fled Afghanistan but cannot escape the violence which pervades his dreams. An undemanding friendship grows between Martha and Ismail but how well does she really know the stranger in her ...